#a palate cleanse

[thevoidstaredback]

Adventures In Gotham

Enough Caffeine to Kill an Elephant Side Story

The first time Danny had ever been to Gotham, he swore it would be his last. He was twenty-two at the time.

In an effort to relax after finals had ended, he, Tucker, Sam, Val, Wes, and Dani had been playing a round of Truth or Dare after finishing a few movies. Sam had dared Danny to wander around Gotham without attracting attention to himself. The catch was that he wasn't allowed to use his powers except to fly there and back. His time limit was Sunday night.

They'd all been planning to stay the night at Sam's anyway, so no one would even notice he was gone. Though, the dare had seemed easy at the time, Danny should've realized his luck was not that good.

Regardless, he flew to the outskirts of Gotham City, dropped his transformation, and entered.

The first thing he noticed was that there was some kind of bubble around Gotham preventing the Shades and overall feel of death from leaving. It was overwhelming at first, but he got used to it pretty quickly. The next thing he noticed was that he had walked into somebody's haunt.

Shit.

He made himself presentable and spoke to the night, "I apologise for trespassing," His voice echoed through the open area as though he was shouting in an empty room. Ghost Speak tended to do that. "I mean no hostile intentions. I simply wish to play a game with your protectors." With any luck, whoever this was would be playful or friendly, at the very least. He didn't hold his breath, though.

A lie. He was holding his breath, but that's only because he was nervous!

The night air stilled as though considering his words. Then, a breeze from behind pushed him further into the city. Flapping wings of bats and owls seemed to hide the whispers of "You may come in." and "Be careful." and "You will lose." and "Good luck.".

A vote of confidence from the City Spirit. "Thank you." He was going to be as quick as he could, but he couldn't draw attention to himself. Easier said than done. Batman seemed to know whenever anyone ever stepped foot into his city, especially if they've never been there before. So, he had to play hide and seek with Batman and Robin.

Again, easier said than done.

Danny knows very little about about Gotham and her heroes and villains. What he does know is that Robin is fairly knew to the scene, but also very serious in what he does. He's still a child, though, and he likes to play around a bit. Batman, on the other hand, has already become something of a cryptid, despite only showing himself a year or so ago. Either way, the two balance each other nicely and work well as a team.

Batman and Robin obviously know the entire city inside out, so Danny has to somehow keep an eye on where they are at all times while not drawing attention to himself. Which would be easy, except for the fact that Danny can only sense where non-living beings are. Batman and Robin are very much alive. He's pretty sure. Unless either of them have a shit ton of Shades attached to them, which is unlikely but not impossible, then he'll have to rely on finding them first and keeping them within his sight as he tours around their city.

Why the hell did he agree to this? He so deserves a reward if he succeeds.

'When', not 'if'. 'If' is pessimistic and implies that Batman might just drop him off a building and watch him fall. 'When' at least lets him continue with the illusion that he may get out of this no deader than when he arrived in Gotham.

All he had to do was basically tour the city, then he'll be done. It went well for the first hour, but then he spotted the shadows moving around him. It wouldn't normally be a problem, but one of those shadows was made out of bright colours. Seeing as his Ghost Sense didn't go off, Danny figured the he'd just run straight into Batman and Robin.

Shit. Fuck. Okay, play it cool, Danny.

He ran. He ran as fast as he could without using his powers. When he was sure he'd lost the two vigilanties, he allowed himself to stop in an alley somewhere in the Narrows. (The map he looked at was coming in very handy all of a sudden)

"Could be worse," he said to himself, backing into a corner.

The sound of shattering glass and the scurrying of mice and rats gave the impression of laughter and taunting. Which, rude, but fair.

"Your Knights, my lady," he spoke into the darkness, "are terrifying."

"Who you talking to?"

Danny did not jump. He didn't! Liar.

The kid, about twelve years old, was in bright green, red, and yellow. His hair windswept and he didn't seem even the slightest bit out of breath, let alone tired. Shouldn't he be in bed? Did he have a bedtime? He should have a bedtime, in Danny's expert opinion.

"Did you know that humans are endurance hunters?" Robin had been smiling since he dropped down in front of Danny. And if that wasn't a scary ass line to hear from a twelve year old up way past his bedtime-

No, he's not intimidated. "It's, um, a good thing I'm not completely human then, huh?" Stupid, stupid, stupid! Shut up, Danny! Stop talking! Right now!

This made Robin frown and the shadows started to move again, Batman taking his place just behind the boy. "What do you mean?"

Damn, he's scary! Danny's a sucker for a deep voice with a growl, damn.

"I, um," Intelligent response, Danny. King of the Realm Between Realms of Infinity. Keeper of Balance, Timeless Protector of the Dead and Living, and he can't even form a proper sentence.

Batman and Robin's stares were uncomfortably similar, even as Robin tilted his head ever so slightly to the right.

For all his wisdom, Danny couldn't see how he could manage to get out of this without using his powers. So, "Gottagobye!" he let intangibility and invisibility wash over him and he slipped through the wall behind him. From there, he let the rings of light cover him and he flew away.

He'll take the L. That was scary as hell!

The night wind brushed against him, the sound of breaking bones and cackling telling him to come by to play again some time. Had Gotham's City Spirit lead her Knight and his child to Danny? Probably. She seemed like the type. At least she seems to like him? Silver linings.

"I'm never going there again," he muttered halfway to Illinois.

Storyboard

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#Enough Caffeine to Kill an Elephant #side story #danny's first adventure in gotham #gotham city #lady gotham #batman #robin #dick grayson as robin #bruce wayne as batman #very early days of batman #hopefully this gives some idea of the timeline #danny phantom #danny needs a nap #danny doesn't get paid enough fro this #dc means disregard canon right? #dcu #dp #dc x dp crossover #dp x dc #dcxdp #dp dc crossover #danny just wants to get this over with without ending up any deader than he was before #is that too much to ask? #this is very much crack #this is also very self indulgent #a little comedy after last time #a palate cleanse #maybe a bribe

[remedyturtles]

#LMAO #in case you were wondering what I’ve been up to this week #‘oh yeah I’m gonna just write a quick lil unrelated one shot to cleanse my palate after arc 1’ #whoops hahahaha

[megumismom]

#asking as your full time aro fic reader and part time fic author #like i can do baby 3 times tops but i see beautiful and just click out and immediately read weird smut to cleanse my palate #i also dont mind kitten i find it cute but i know some people r freaked out about it #like whats wrong with a lil furryism :( #bg3 #jjk #astarion #911 #buddie #evan buck buckely #trc #text #succession #kendall roy #stewy hosseini #kenstewy #eddie diaz #fanfiction #polls and things #polls #spn #tlou #gale dekarios #bloodweave #tgcf #hualian #i cannot remember other ships i like suddenly #pynch #aftg #andreil

[paxcallow]

he just really believes in her

#psychonauts #razputin aquato #lili zanotto #posting my backlog of art part 2: the more psychonautsing #fanart #my art #comic #trying to cleanse the tag's palate a little. after. Another Fuckface Is Reveal...! #sorry for the people following me for megamind or world's end or whatever i'll post that stuff too i prommy :^( #but uhhh yeah i was a mixed bag even back on CM. that will continue i think

[galedekarios]

A stolen glance, that sudden heartbeat—

#gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #gale x tav #tav x gale #ch: gale dekarios #ch: karl eifers #otp: you give me hope #vg: baldur's gate 3 #series: baldur's gate #edit: mybg3 #long post for ts #i realised too late that i forgot to give karl his scars #but i love them too much #and i need to thoroughly palate cleanse after l*rian's scheduled bs

[alluks-olee]

I’m exciting

Yes… yes you are

#cutie patootie #käärijä #i keep rewatching these interviews and he just keeps getting more adorable #cleansing your palate from last night’s sluttiness

[lepetitchemin]

the way the first time darcy tells elizabeth “i love you” it seems to spill out of him like he simply cannot contain it. and the second time he tells her “i love—i love—i love you” it’s as though his feelings are so strong that he can hardly put them into words

#YOU KNOW ?!!!!!!!! #FUCK #i watched this the other night to cleanse my palate after persuasion #pride and prejudice (2005) #pride and prejudice #pride & prejudice (2005) #pride & prejudice #mr. darcy #elizabeth bennet #darcy x elizabeth #elizabeth x darcy

[thefiresofpompeii]

YAYAYAYYY UTOPIA :3 UTOPIA TIME!

#that episode was the worst thing in the world and also pretty good at times i guess #but now i have to cleanse the palate with my favourite pain #jamie.txt #jamie catches up #torchwood lb #end of days #torchwood #jack harkness #dw #utopia #doctor who

[realbeefman]

rewatching sunny s1 just to feel something (manic hysteria over how blatantly Together charlie and dennis were)

#in the charden trenches #been reading a lot of academic shit recently to palate cleanse from all the gay fanfiction ive been reading #but im ready to dive back into my comfort zone #(delusion) #charden #charlie kelly #dennis reynolds #its always sunny in philadelphia #its always sunny #iasip

[heavnofhell]

Mark Pellegrino Appreciation V.VIII.MMXXIII

#Mark Monday #Mark Pellegrino #Lucifer #spn Lucifer #spnedit #{{ bc I was forced to endure several hours of Springfield's Lucifer last week and I needed to cleanse my palate }} #queue got me all wrong kiddo

[razzberriezz]

What’s Japan without sushi??? The place I went to had this as their signature sushi... a tuna roll smothered in wasabi OTL I don’t usually eat raw food, and I decided to try it out just because the waitress there highly recommended it. I also didn’t think there’d be that much wasabi when I ordered it, and it was REALLY FREAKING SPICY, especially the end piece you can see on the right lmao.

But despite the spiciness it was actually really good! The wasabi is meant to bring out the sweetness of the fresh tuna and it really did do its job haha. After a few bites, the heat actually died down... Or maybe my nose just completely cleared up from the amount of wasabi I consumed??? Alternating between pieces of the tuna roll and other sushi I ordered (like unagi (eel) and tamago (egg) made for an amazing meal for me though! Although the sushi chef almost passed out when I said I don’t eat the ginger slices LOL.

#style savvy #style savvy styling star #style savvy 4 #girls mode 4 #new style boutique 3 #steffy's japan log #the look on that man's face when i rejected the ginger slices... was like i'd just murdered his pet in front of him #i don't need ginger to cleanse my palate the wasabi did enough of that thank you very much

[vickyvicarious]

The room was the same, unchanged in any way since I came into it; I could see along the floor, in the brilliant moonlight, my own footsteps marked where I had disturbed the long accumulation of dust. In the moonlight opposite me were three young women, ladies by their dress and manner. I thought at the time that I must be dreaming when I saw them, for, though the moonlight was behind them, they threw no shadow on the floor.

I love that even in this moment Jonathan latches on to small but significant details, like his own footprints in the dust. He doesn't specifically say the ladies aren't leaving footprints, but I absolutely bet they aren't which is why he emphasizes it looking unchanged.

It's extra sad/creepy, because the proliferation of dust/seemingly abandoned room with no footprints or sign of use is a huge part of why he felt so much safer in here last night. And yet the opposite is true. Vampires don't cast a shadow or reflection, they don't leave traces as they pass. And so all the signs he took as showing no other living soul had been here in a long time were true... but only for living souls. And he's the only one of those in this castle.

#dracula daily #jonathan harker #vampire ladies #on the bright side this is useful information for later #but it also means he must be way more paranoid #because it's so hard to tell when they might show up or how #the only thing he knows can keep them back is dracula. his only protector is dracula. #...exactly as the count wants it to be #(to cleanse the palate though remember this means dracula had to do a shitton of dusting to prep for jonathan. laugh at that)

[every-orochimaru]

#naruto #ch 344 #orochimaru #hiruzen sarutobi #itachi pursuit mission #everyorochimaru #some baby orochimaru to cleanse the palate

[strawberrygardenkisses]

Don't forget to watch something positive before you go to sleep!

#personal #i live by this #honestly i have been ingesting a lot of dark content lately and it can get overwhelming sometimes #but idk i have always loved scary disturbing stuff so its just in my nature #but even tho i just watched hereditary i am now watching married at first sight to cleanse the palate lOL

[ofdarklands]

13 - Zhenniao

Zhenniao, often simply zhen, is a name given in many Chinese myths, annals, and poetry to poisonous birds that are said to have existed in what is now southern China. According to Eastern Jin scholar Guo Pu, two different kinds of birds were called zhen: a poisonous, snake-eating bird of prey, and a pheasant-like species—purportedly the one dwelling on Mount Yaobi—which preyed instead on malodorous bugs called fěi. From its very veins to the tips of its feathers, the zhen's body was said to be tainted with a poison of unparalleled potency, referred to as zhèndú. The zhen's feathers were often dipped into liquor to create a poisonous draught that was often used to carry out assassinations. Its meat, however, was said to be overtly toxic and gave off a gamy odor that rendered it inadequate for surreptitious use, and the zhen's excrement could dissolve stone.

Wild zhenniao were supposedly last seen in the Song dynasty when many farming Han Chinese moved to Guangdong and Guangxi. Humans are supposed to have killed them all. In 1992, an article was published in the journal Science reporting that the hooded pitohui of New Guinea has poisonous feathers; since then, a few other species of similarly poisonous birds have been discovered, most of which also gain their poison from their prey. A 2007 article published in China questioned whether or not the zhen could have really existed.

#inktober2023 #my works #inktober #a normalish bird to cleanse the palate #so to say #from the wiki again

[khunspikesficrecs]

Title: meet me in another life

Author: stardustvx (@stardustvx)

Rating: General Audiences

Pairing: Vegas Theerapanyakul/Pete Saengtham

Summary:

"You have been hard to find this time,” Vegas says as he leans closer. So close that Pete can feel his hot breath on his cheeks. “You were looking for me?” or vp being just regular people, living regular lives and falling in love in every universe

#kinnporsche #kpts #kpts fic rec #kinnporsche the series #vegaspete #vp pairing #reincarnation #just some nice fluff to keep for palate cleansing